{"id":731447,"date":"2026-04-16T05:53:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/731447\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T05:53:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:53:21","slug":"hornets-guard-lamelo-ball-fined-assessed-flagrant-foul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/731447\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornets guard LaMelo Ball fined, assessed flagrant foul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2163229\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2163229\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages_lamelo_fine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2163229\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LaMelo Ball was fined and assessed a flagrant foul for reckless contact on Bam Adebayo during the SoFi Play-In Tournament.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NEW YORK<\/strong>, April 15, 2026 \u2013 Charlotte Hornets guard LaMelo Ball has been fined $35,000 and assessed a Flagrant Foul 2 upon league office review for making <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/bam-adebayo-back-injury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unnecessary and reckless contact<\/a> with Miami Heat center-forward Bam Adebayo that created a significant injury risk, it was announced today by James Jones, Executive Vice President, Head of Basketball Operations.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred with 11:13 remaining in the second quarter of the Hornets\u2019 127-126 overtime win over the Heat on April 14 in the SoFi NBA Play-In Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Ball has been fined an additional $25,000 for using profane language during a live postgame television interview.<\/p>\n<p>To view Ball\u2019s Flagrant Foul, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/watch\/video\/mia-at-cha-4-14-26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LaMelo Ball was fined and assessed a flagrant foul for reckless contact on Bam Adebayo during the SoFi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":731448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[47747,302573,51,57189,50,52],"class_list":["post-731447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-fined","tag-flagrant-foul","tag-headlines","tag-lamelo-ball","tag-news","tag-top-stories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116412835875351257","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}